From Beginner to Pro Secrets to Perfect Tomatoes Revealed - AVOID These Mistakes

Even BETTER than determinates? Dwarf indeterminates! Plant stays small and compact, but produces all season long! There's a dwarf tomato project going on and every year new and better varieties are coming out! Some of them are simply fantastic, like Emerald green Giant and Golden Gypsy!

I didn’t learn anything new today, but I always love watching your videos and supporting the channel!

I LOVE planting a rainbow of tomatoes! I have 14 varieties going this year, 46 plants. Yellow, pink, purple, orange… yum!

I know very very little about gardening. But I’d like to share the one thing that I think I did right growing tomatoes in Michigan. I have a regular raised garden bed and I take 6-8 of those sign stakes that are 8 ft long and drive them into the ground around the inside edge of my bed. (Evenly spaced) Then I use twine and I weave it back and forth like a giant spider web. I plant my tomatoes and I pretty much leave them alone all summer. Sometime I’ll tuck a branch back into the web, but for the most part, nothing. The tomatoes grow as tall as the structure will allow, and yields tons of tomatoes. This method has proven very fruitful in the 5 years that I’ve been doing it. I don’t know if it’s the best way, but it’s been great for me. Thanks for the videos.

The tomato cages are.great for peonies too. If you put one in the ground when your peonies first start coming up, they help keep them tidy looking and keep them from flopping on the ground when they get heavy with blooms. Gently coax the branches imside.the cage, as they grow their foliage will cover the cages.

Show us how you plan on trellising your tomato plants please.

For my determinates, I use peony cages. They're substantially more heavy duty. Worth the extra money for me in the long run.

tomato cages are GREAT, for growing sugar baby watermelon vertically, also Kajari melon, cucumbers, or any sort of squash.

Thanks so much for your videos, luke i am a small scale organic farmer because of you, you were the first person who introduced me to gardening and your videos literally gave me all the confidence and knowledge i needed to get started and for once in my life i can confidently say i absolutely love what i do for a living

Just buy the starter tomato plants if you are starting out. I've failed at tomato seeds in zone 5 but luckily there is enough time to plant a few starter plants from the nursery/plant store/big box store. It's a little more expensive but it's an option for those who didn't successfully get seeds grown or started. And as always a great lesson and lecture by the MIgardener. He's literally sharing love.

Wooo hooo! It’s a great rainy morning! Happy day to you and yours.

Regarding the single stem method for pruning indeterminate tomatoes, what do you do when the main stem forks into two? Both stems are the same thickness and both are strong. How do I know which one to cut off or do I keep both? I got a late start on my garden this yr and bought a couple Mortgage Lifter starts so I didn’t grow them from seed. Any advice from this community is welcome. 😊

So much great advice! I would love to see more container growing content too. Cheers!

Always good to go over everything from basics to advanced.

Learned a few nrw things. Thank you! 😊

You use 2 tom cages for cherry tom. 1 put in the regular way & the 2nd inverted & zip tied together. They are also great for zucchini.

I had very poor success starting my tomatoes and peppers by seed. Do you have a video on this? Thank you! 🍅 🫑

Love my seeds from MI Gardner! Started getting berry roots and plants recently ❤.

Love your channel, always learning something new. Thanks for sharing.💖

Never heard that pruning distinction. !! Thanks. !!